Moises Saman won two Pulitzer Prizes for photography in May. One was in the Feature Photography category for his coverage of ...

A goldsmith was murdered by a gang of criminals for refusing to pay protection money. This incident confirms the climate of ...

Choreographers and poets from the Middle East and North Africa feature in the 79th edition's lineup, but playwrights remain ...

Life in their home country, meanwhile, has taken a more positive turn, following the overthrow of dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad led his country’s production and distribution of the highly addictive street drug Captagon, earning billions of dollars to operate prisons and maintain his ...

Iran-watchers believe that there is an almost unprecedented window of opportunity following the series of critical setbacks that have impacted on the mullahs’ regime in the past year, with the virtual ...

Rebuilding Syria is proving a potentially lethal task, as streets and farmland are seeded with unexploded land mines – with ...